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Study: 30 percent of tech shuttle riders would move from SF if there weren’t...
We weren’t able to attend the San Francisco Commission on the Environment’s policy committee meeting on Mon/13, but there were clues (okay, a live Twitter feed) that the debate around the city’s tech...
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SFUSD backs supervisors’ sugary beverage tax, with concerns
Supervisors Mar and Wiener listen to advocate Roberto Vargas defend their sugary beverages tax to the Board of Education Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezA San Francisco ballot initiative to levy a tax...
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Of course Beyoncé is a feminist: On gender equality and women in entertainment
Hi, I'm here for Women's Studies?A specific corner of the Internet was abuzz this week with the news that Beyoncé, fresh off inciting think-piece warfare about whether or not her new visual album...
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Welcome to San Francisco, "Welcome to Night Vale"
Hello, listeners. Brilliant breakout podcast "Welcome to Night Vale" has gained a rabid (yet adorably introspective) fanbase since it launched in June 2012. The twice-monthly, 20-minute-long show,...
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Police pledge new pedestrian safety reforms, and to revisit collision cold case
Jikaiah Stevens after the collision that cost her over $100,000 in medical bills, as well as traumatic brain injury. Photos courtesy of Jikaiah StevensOne might call it the police’s act of contrition....
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RIP Gary Arlington, underground comix hero
"Gary Arlington and Beloved Comics"Just got word from Last Gasp Press founder Ron Turner that comics legend Gary Edson Arlington has passed away at age 75. In 1968, he opened what is considered the...
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State of the City speech filled with unsupported promises
Mayor Lee's speech was long pledges, promises, and platitudes, but short of support.It was maddening to watch Mayor Ed Lee deliver his annual State of the City address this morning. This was pure...
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New, final Presidio museum proposals are in
The new Lucas plan...looks like the old Lucas plan. Courtesy of the Presidio.gov websiteThe final round of project proposals for the Crissy Field Presidio site are in, and boy do they sure look......
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Double standard for the role of voters in SF waterfront development?
Sup. David Campos signs Campaign Manager Jon Golinger's waterfront initiative petition.Tim DawAs our article on San Francisco waterfront development was hitting the presses last week, California State...
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Talking points for Google busers
TechCrunch is reporting that a Google employee leaked an internal memo the Silicon Valley tech firm circulated to its employees, urging them to provide public comment on the controversial proposal to...
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Debunking SF Mag’s Ellis Act apologist article, point by point
San Francisco Magazine's "The Power Issue" features Ed Lee front and center.Well, everyone’s got an opinion. And when it comes to San Francisco’s housing crisis, that’s doubly true.San Francisco...
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Gimme 5: Must-see shows this week
Stop crying into your beer: JD Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers play the Rickshaw Stop Wed/22.We hear a certain sporting team lost a football match of sorts over the weekend — at least, this is what we...
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VIDEO: Tech buses blocked hours before vote on bus stop fees
Activist poet Tony Robles in the reflection of a tech bus, stopped by a protest earlier today Photo by Joe Fitzgerald RodriguezTwo tech buses were surrounded and blockaded by over 100 protesters...
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SFMTA Board approves tech shuttle plan
After sitting through hours of commentary in which people said the pilot was a bad idea, the SFMTA board approved it.The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of directors approved a...
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Local journalists starting to catch onto Airbnb's subversion of SF's rental...
Our 8/6/13 cover story, "Into Thin Air," documented Airbnb's impacts on San Francisco.Brooke RobertsonAirbnb and other so-called “shared housing” sites allow hundreds of rent-controlled apartments in...
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POW!'s Byron Blum on staying put
POW! plays the Makeout Room Thursday, Jan. 23.Photo by Sam E. FergusonWhen John Dwyer announced that he was leaving San Francisco for LA a few weeks ago, he caused a bit of blogosphere melodrama, to...
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The SFMTA could legally charge commuter shuttles a higher fee
Under a newly approved pilot program that sanctions private commuter shuttles' use of San Francisco public bus stops, shuttle operators will be made to pay a fee of $1 per stop, per day.Many community...
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Judge says state erred in 8 Washington property transfer
Pretty scene, but where's the luxury condo towers?A San Francisco judge has ruled that the California State Lands Commission illegally exempted from environmental review a property transfer it approved...
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H. Brown: Goodbye to all that, we hope
Ah, that old school New Left he-man feelingPHOTO BY LUKE THOMAS/FOG CITY JOURNALIn an SF Weekly piece published yesterday, it was announced that progressive political blogger and gadabout H. Brown – an...
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“Tale of Two Davids” casts Campos as the progressive hero
David Campos (foreground) had a good night in his first debate against Assembly opponent David Chiu.Mike Koozmin/SF Media Co.David Campos presented “a tale of two Davids” tonight [Thu/23] in his first...
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